Macular degeneration. You have probably heard of it before, you may even know someone who has been diagnosed with the condition. Age related macular degeneration (ARMD) is the leading cause of significant vision loss in Americans 55 and older. It affects your central, detailed vision and in severe cases can cause blindness. So hopefully you […]
In honor of the month of love, I am going to share some simple and effective ways to show your eyes a little extra TLC. Not just this month, but all year long! 1. Eat a healthy diet. Let me guess, you are thinking carrots, right? 🙂 Carrots are rich in Vitamin A and Lutein, […]
When you hear the word “Glaucoma”, what you think of? Do you immediately see images of an elderly patient in big, dark sunglasses? Or are you the funny guy who hears that word and uses the opportunity to make a joke about needing a prescription for marijuana? Seeing as January is “Glaucoma Awareness Month”… what, […]
New Year, NEW YOU! That is the motto I have developed for 2017 in our office. I feel like with all the New Year’s Resolutions being made and commitments to “get healthier”, “lose weight”, “take better care of yourself”, why not include your precious eyesight on that list? If you ask someone which sense they […]
Children’s near-vision isn’t the only thing that suffers when hyperopia goes untreated; early literacy skills also lag with potential repercussions for grade-school readiness. Published in late January in the journal Ophthalmology, the Results of the Vision in Preschoolers-Hyperopia in Preschoolers (VIP-HIP) study found that children with moderate hyperopia (3 to 6 diopters) performed “significantly worse […]
The new babysitter on the block is the iPad, the cell phone, the Nintendo handheld. We hand them to our kids nearly as soon as our kids can grasp them. And who can blame us? The kids want the devices. They are fascinated and enraptured by them. We even tell ourselves they are educational devices. […]
Leading eye and health care organizations are joining this month to support National Glaucoma Awareness Month, an initiative geared toward educating the public on the major eye disease that affects more than 2.8 million Americans, according to Prevent Blindness America. To support the initiative, the Glaucoma Research Foundation, Prevent Blindness America and the National Eye […]
Diabetes affects more than 26 million Americans. Most everyone knows someone who has this disease or you may even have it yourself. Aside from getting regular check ups with your primary care doctor or endocrinologist, it is also very important to be having your eyes checked on an annual basis. Diabetes can cause hemorrhaging and […]
Although we are into October, as far as my allergies are concerned it feels like spring all over again. For about a week now, I have been sneezing uncontrollably and feeling the need to “scratch” my eyes out of my head. Itchy eyes are the number one sign of ocular allergies and can be accompanied […]
78 percent of aging Americans affected by vision loss; Michigan Optometric Association (MOA) offers tips to protect eyesight throughout life It’s a fact of life that vision can change over time, resulting in a number of noticeable differences in how well aging adults see the world around them. In fact, according to the American Optometric Association’s (AOA) 2014 […]